Comments on: Red Hat High 2007: Getting Started

by: Small Cnc Milling Machine

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:41:53 +0000

Small Cnc Milling Machine

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

by: 高海涛

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:21:37 +0000

有没有中文版的?有的话就标一下我想下载

by: Greg DeKoenigsberg

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:34:10 +0000

Wally… as ERM has already pointed out, there are a number of good Blender books, so that’s a good way to get started — but we’re also considering making this a teach-the-teachers program as well. Sounds like the kind of program you might be interested in — especially if we can subsidize it. Which we’d consider, since we subsidized Red Hat High completely.

And Josh, we’re looking to release the curricula under an OpenCourseware-type license, but we’ve got some homework to do in order to make that happen the right way.

by: Colby Hoke

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:58:53 +0000

We’re currently trying to figure out how to get everyone’s stuff out there for you all to see. The idea is for it all to be CC, but it ultimately comes down to what the artist wants it to be.

I’m sitting here in the lab with the Blender guys (yes, Bassam is here, too) and we discussed this just a few minutes ago. And…

Creative Commons is a choice - one that we all believe in, but a choice either way. These kids will ultimately decide.

I’m sure we’ll let you all know where you can see the work they’ve been spending their time on as soon as possible.

Look for another post by Greg.

Cheers!

by: Josh

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:39:14 +0000

Greg,

Do you guys plan to release the course content under a Creative Commons license? It’d be great if we could have a decent “summer camp” type curriculum to replicate what you’ve done all over the country.

Also, there’s a similar idea in the UK, as seen on today’s LinuxToday:

http://www.telegram.com/article/20070707/NEWS/707070353/1008/NEWS02

Cheers,
-J

by: ERM

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:43:39 +0000

Wally,

Blender’s actually not that bad. How much time do you have to learn? I learned enough to make my first animation within a month. I learned enough to make my first animated short within 6 months. If you have the budget, buy “The Essential Blender” and “Introduction to Character Animation”.

To see how easy it is, go to http://www.dropthebombproductions.com - if you go to CG Animation, “Penguin Flight” is the animation I produced after a month. “Jose’s Dinner” is my first animated short.

There’s also a few of fluid simulations and physics engine simulations I’ve done, but haven’t added to my site. They’re on my vimeo stream, so if you follow the link from “Jose’s Dinner” you should find them immediately before.

It’s actually a piece of cake to use once you get used to it.

by: ERM

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:39:47 +0000

Sounds like you’re doing the right thing. Is that Bassam from Blender you have there? His work is amazing and you’re lucky to have him, if it is indeed him.

I just started using Blender last Winter and I’m a college grad with a job. I’ve done a little with it, but imagine what I could have been doing had Blender been around when I had all the free time of middle and high school!

Plus, SUPER kudos on introducing these kids to Linux early. They might start talking about it with their friends and then…..da da dum!

by: wally kulecz

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:38:51 +0000

We’ve got a need for some low budget 3-D scene rendering for visual experiments, I’ve looked at Blender, but the learning curve seems rather steep to say the least. I’m very interested in seeing what these kids can come up with using it. At this point, our budget doesn’t look deep enough to pay me to learn Blender, so we’re looking for alternatives, or scaling back the project goals for the short term.

–wally.